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Wednesday, September 6, 2017

New School Year 2017-2018–Our curriculum

It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged, I’m still happily working for VIPKID, but I often refer to my “Our curriculum” posts from previous years, so I thought I would go ahead and make one for this year too!
We ended that last school year with some ice cream at Menchies
and then kicked off the new year with a trip to Assateague Island!
We don’t have a lot of ‘school’ planned this month, we have a LOT of field trips and other funning learning adventures though. We will dive into the ‘books’ next month.
This is what we are using this coming school year:

6th grade

History – Pandia Press History Odyssey Middle Ages 2
Grammar – we are taking a short break from IEW Fix-It Grammar, but plan to circle back around to it. We are currently doing sentence diagramming from The Critical Thinking Company. I felt that sentence diagramming will give my son more of a visual to better identify the parts of speech.
Writing – IEW themed based writing – Medieval History
Science – Real Science 4 Kids – Geology and Astronomy
Spelling – Phonetic Zoo, still trucking along at level A
Handwriting – Cursive copywork
Math – CTC Math and Life of Fred (for review)
Chinese – LingoBus
Critical Thinking from The Critical Thinking Company
Art – variety
Music – piano and church choir